asked the Minister of Works the reasons for the expenditure proposed for 1950–51 for the protection and maintenance of Chequers amounting to £11,300.

The income of the trust for many years has been insufficient to defray all the necessary expenditure and it has been the practice for Parliament to supplement the trust income by authorising certain expenditure as a charge to the Public Buildings Vote. The additional expenditure proposed is due to certain arrears of maintenance on the estate which should be put in hand.